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   Taiwanese cinema revisits serious issues in GF*BF

   Posted Aug 29th 2012, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... It harks back to the style of the 1980s-90s New Taiwan Cinema movement pioneered by the likes of Hou Hsiao-hsien and the late Edward Yang De-chang. GF*BF chronicles the struggle of Liam (Joseph ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1024826/taiwanese-cinema-revisits-serious-issues-gfbf
2. Monsters

   Posted Mar 17th 2011, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... soundtracks a US helicopter's decimation of Vietnamese villages in Apocalypse Now - director Gareth Edwards intimates his film's true colours as more an heir to Francis Ford Coppola's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/741101/monsters
3. Vampires Suck

   Posted Aug 19th 2010, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... Suck's opening sequence sets the bar for the quality of its jokes: there's the vampire Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter) going stark naked only to reveal a glitterball on his nether regions; two evil vampires slathering on sunscreen and swigging from 'True Blood' bottles; and Edward's love, Becca (Jenn Proske, above right), running towards her hunk only to find herself ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/722488/vampires-suck
4. The Terrorisers

   Posted Aug 19th 2010, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... Made as Taiwan slowly reconnected with the world, Edward Yang De-chang's 1986 film offers a damning critique of the alienation bubbling underneath Taipei. One of the key films of the Taiwanese New Wave, The Terrorisers revolves around four lonely characters grappling with the emptiness of their lives: a doctor craving a promotion, his author-wife struggling with writer's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/722487/terrorisers
5. The King's Speech

   Posted Mar 03rd 2011, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... the British royal family as the country's guardian and moral compass. The somewhat inaccurate telling of Edward VIII's abdication and the ruling elite's view about appeasing Nazi ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/739652/kings-speech
6. The Twilight Saga: New Moon

   Posted Dec 17th 2009, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... age': she's turning 18, and officially looking a year older than her never-ageing vampire boyfriend, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Bella reluctantly attends a birthday party thrown by the Cullen family, where she gets a paper cut and narrowly escapes a fatal chomp from Edward's bloodthirsty, newly 'vegetarian' brother, Jasper (Jackson Rathbone). Distraught by his ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/701561/twilight-saga-new-moon
7. Love and Other Drugs

   Posted Dec 30th 2010, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... to 'help better the world' by bringing people closer together, literally. While its zeitgeist-probing premise might seem similar to The Social Network, Edward Zwick's film flatlines ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/734316/love-and-other-drugs
8. Twilight

   Posted Dec 18th 2008, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... threads that will be explored in sequels. This is why the film goes into full-throttle action mode only in the last hour, when the good vampires - the Cullens family, led by Edward (Robert Pattinson) - go to war with the menacing, human-threatening bloodsucker James (Cam Gigandet) over Bella (Kristen Stewart), Edward's girlfriend and the film's protagonist. Then again, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/664266/twilight
9. Faces of a city

   Posted Aug 22nd 2010, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

   ... world, and that's okay. Hou has an elegiac and poetic sense of what Taipei is, while Edward was more about alienation and urbanism. What's great about cities is that you can make them ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/722750/faces-city
10. Angles and demons

    Posted Dec 02nd 2010, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

    ... and Edward Yang De-chang, then embarking on careers that would eventually become cornerstones of the Taiwanese New Wave. 'They were having this dialogue with their own cultures and representing ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/732217/angles-and-demons

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